Toronto police arrest man on war driving charge

Police in Toronto have arrested a man who was driving down a street half-naked and using a wireless-enabled laptop to tap into a nearby network and download pornographic images, a report in The London Free Press News says.

The case is possibly the first in Canada involving wireless internet signal piracy or war driving - driving around in a vehicle with a laptop computer, an antenna, and an 802.11 wireless LAN adapter to exploit existing wireless networks.

The man was pulled over by police who noticed him going the wrong way on a one-way street in a residential area.

He was found to be naked from the waist down and downloading an image of a young girl involved in a sex act with an adult, the report said.

Police found that he had hooked into a wireless network in a house close by and was using the owner's internet connection to download images of child pornography.

The man's home in southwest Ontario was searched and police said 10 computers and hundreds of CDs and floppy disks were seized. He has been charged with with possession, accessing distributing and making child pornography, and theft of telecommunications.